Fans take control of TV...On-Line is an article about fanfiction. It introduces a lay audience to the genre and then uses The X-Files as an "example of how a successful show spawns mountains of fanfic."

Perhaps the most interesting part of this phenomenon is the on-line community which has grown up around fanfic. Anyone who writes and posts an X-Files fanfic on one of the many group archives instantly receives mail. It's a guaranteed audience. Many of these groups now give out their own awards and even meet...off-line as well as on. Sheryl Martin, who was quoted in an article the New York Times ran on fanfic, met her fiance through her on-line life. She tells the appeal of this community this way. "I just like to make people happy- yeah, I know it sounds simplistic; but when I get a fan letter back...it just makes my day." One Star Wars fanfic writer made the observation that with audio and visual sampling technology becoming more and more sophisticated a new form of fanfic could arise. One where you took the images and sounds from a show with enough background material, say the long running series Seinfeld, and constructed a whole new episode. It must be said that with fanfic, the show never ends.